Toki o kakeru shôjo (2010)

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Having seen and enjoyed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time animated film from 2006, I was skeptical of the love action Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time from 2010. Feeling I had forgotten enough of the details of the previous film, I went for it and... I shouldn't have worried. It's really a sequel to that film, featuring the daughter of the original character who goes back in time to her mother's school days. It's actually more complicated than that. TGWLTT was a novel first, and since the 1970s, there have been many, many television and film adaptations, so it would be more true to say this movie is the sequel to the NOVEL, it doesn't necessarily connect exactly with the anime. At this point, "young person goes back in time to their parents' youth" is almost a subgenre in Asian TV and cinema. There seems to be an interest in nostalgia and things "retro" fueling it, and correspondingly, Time Traveller takes its time to experience the era (early 70s Japan) and sometimes comes off as sentimental. Be that as it may, it's a sweet story that earns its tearful ending. And I don't think I've ever seen such a silly time travel sequence in what is otherwise a serious movie. 2 years 11 months ago